Men-at-the-Bar/Burford-Hancock, Sir Henry James Burford

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Burford-Hancock, Sir Henry James Burford
3824775Men-at-the-Bar — Burford-Hancock, Sir Henry James BurfordJoseph Foster


Burford-Hancock, Sir Henry James Burford, chief justice and judge of vice-admiralty court of Gibraltar since 1882, knighted at Windsor Castle 29 June, 1882, district judge Jamaica 1876-8, attorney-general and member of Executive Council of Leeward Islands 1878-9, chancellor of the diocese of Antigua 1878, chief justice and judge of vice-admiralty court of Leeward Islands and commissioner of encumbered estates courts of Antigua and Montserrat 1879-82, administrator of government of Leeward Islands in 1881, assumed the additional surname of Burford by royal licence 1881, received medaille d'honneur from H.I.M. Napoleon III for A Treatise on International Fishery Laws 1866, formerly lieut. 45th foot and capt. Kent artillery militia, educated at Eton, a student of the Inner Temple 11 Nov., 1862 (then aged 22), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1866 (only son of Henry Hancock, Esq., sometime president of Royal College of Surgeons England); born 20 Nov., 1839; married 20 March, 1861, Hannah, dau. of late Capt. Thomas Jacob Settle, R.N., and has issue.

The Palace, Gibraltar; Standen, Wilts; Conservative, National, Beaconsfield, Constitutional, & St. Stephen's Clubs.